Mosby's Pocketbook of Mental Health , 3rd Edition

Description

With an estimated 450 million people worldwide suffering from mental health problems, more health care workers now need a range of mental health skills in order to provide sufficient care across a variety of settings.

Written by leading authors in their fields, Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Patricia Barkway and Debra Nizette, The Pocketbook of Mental Health is a quick-reference resource that delivers practical strategies and skills for allied health and nursing students, health professionals, general practitioners, paramedics, police and allied health workers to implement.

With a focus on social inclusion, recovery, culture and the promotion of consumer rights, this mental health textbook is a pivotal guide for holistic modern health care practices.

Reviews

"This is a very useful guide to assist non-mental health professionals in making assessments. The book offers practical, hands-on strategies for what to do in commonly encountered situations with clients who are experiencing distress. "

-Laura Kelly, PhD, APN (Columbia University School of Nursing)

New to this Edition

• New chapter: Assessing Risk
• Loss and Grief chapter has a stronger focus on Trauma
• Consistent structuring across disorders and medications
• Increased content on ice, the therapeutic relationship, pain, the links between physical health and mental, childhood, additional/new cultural groups
• Significantly more content on self-care and inter-professional practice highlighting the different roles involved.

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Eimear Muir-Cochrane, BSc Hons, RN, Grad Dip Adult Ed, MNS, PhD FACMHN, CHMN , Chair of Nursing (Mental Health Nursing), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, SA, Australia; Patricia Barkway, RN, MHN, FACMHN, BA, MSc(PHC), Senior Lecturer, Stream Coordinator Mental Health Nursing Programs, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and Debra Nizette, RN, Dip App Sc-Nr Ed, B App Sc-Nursing, MNSt, FACN, FACMHN, CMHN, Director of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery Office, Queensland Health, QLD, Australia